Vera Miles
Age: N/A | From: Boise City, Oklahoma, USA
Person Details
Birthday:
Aliases: Vera June Ralston , Vera June Miles
Gender: Female
Place of birth: Boise City, Oklahoma, USA
Homepage:
Movie Involvements: 68
TV Involvements: 46
Most Famous Work
Biography
Vera June Miles (born August 23, 1929) is an American actress. Born in Boise City, Oklahoma, Vera Miles attended school in Pratt, Kansas and Wichita, Kansas. The patrician beauty of Miss Miles won her the title of "Miss Kansas" in 1948, leading soon to small roles in Hollywood films and television series. Fame came to the forthright, spirited Miles when she attracted the attention of two master directors, Alfred Hitchcock and John Ford. Ford cast her in the classic western The Searchers (1956) and Hitchcock, who put her under personal contract and hailed her as his "new Grace Kelly", paired her with the great Henry Fonda in The Wrong Man (1956). Hitchcock cast Miles in the potentially star-making role of Judy Barton in Vertigo (1958), but Miles withdrew from the film when she became pregnant. Hitchcock gave Miles a supporting role in another masterpiece Psycho (1960), as did Ford when he cast her opposite John Wayne and James Stewart in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), She also starred in such films as Beau James (1957) opposite Bob Hope, The FBI Story (1959) opposite Stewart, Back Street (1961) opposite Susan Hayward and John Gavin and Sergeant Ryker (1968) opposite Lee Marvin, as well as showing her consistently remarkable and versatile talent on dozens of popular television movies and series including The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962), Twilight Zone (1959), The Outer Limits (1963), The Fugitive (1963), My Three Sons (1960), Bonanza (1959), "Columbo" and Murder, She Wrote (1984). In 1983, she reprised her role as "Lila Crane" in the film sequel Psycho II (1983), starring Anthony Perkins. Although, too often, the stunningly beautiful Miles' gifts were underutilized, before her retirement in 1995, hers was a most intriguing and enduring Hollywood career.
Most Famous Work
The Fugitive
(1963) Monica Welles
Columbo
(1971) Viveca Scott
The Twilight Zone
(1959) Millicent Barnes
The Millionaire
(1955) Merle Roberts
The Name of the Game
(1968) Tracy Cannon
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
(1962) Nicky Revere
Climax!
(1954) Janet Reese
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
(1956) Jenny BreckenridgeActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 1995 | Dr. Ruth Goldin | |
| 1993 | Lila Crane (archive footage) | |
| 1989 | Sophie Kubacki | |
| 1985 | Elaine Corley | |
| Joan Caper | ||
| 1984 | Georgina Burton | |
| Frances Fairchild | ||
| Elizabeth Gates | ||
| Charmaine Calloway Thompson | ||
| Joanna Shaw | ||
| Kate Keller | ||
| 1983 | Marian Koonan | |
| Lila Loomis | ||
| Julie Lawless | ||
| 1982 | Cat | |
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1981 | Patricia | |
| 1980 | N/A | |
| Ida McBride | ||
| 1979 | Tora | |
| (archive footage) | ||
| 1978 | Irene Elder | |
| 1977 | Bess Hensinger | |
| Clarissa Stewart | ||
| Martha Wagner | ||
| 1976 | Melissa Bryant | |
| Mrs. Horton | ||
| Grace Coventry | ||
| Erica | ||
| 1975 | N/A | |
| 1974 | Christine Rhodes | |
| Ruthy Leland | ||
| Henrietta MacAvoy | ||
| N/A | ||
| Eleanor Strom | ||
| Marcia Carmichael | ||
| 1973 | Ellen Staffo | |
| Doris | ||
| 1972 | Andrea Glenn | |
| Molly Parker | ||
| Gloria Wilkes | ||
| N/A | ||
| Lilah Beth Cummings | ||
| 1971 | Rose Staines | |
| Viveca Scott | ||
| N/A | ||
| Diana Langston | ||
| Jenny Olson | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1970 | Kate Tanner | |
| 1969 | N/A | |
| Helen Wagner | ||
| Janet Devaney | ||
| June Wiley | ||
| Laura Ring | ||
| 1968 | Madelyn Buckman | |
| Joan Barnes | ||
| June Wiley | ||
| Flora Whiting | ||
| Marisa Cummings | ||
| Tracy Cannon | ||
| Melissa Hyde | ||
| Ann Ryker | ||
| 1967 | Ellen Wedloe | |
| Jean McBride | ||
| N/A | ||
| Kate Powell | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1966 | Vida Downey | |
| Madame Raine De Sala | ||
| Adele | ||
| 1965 | Kate Burke | |
| Rachel | ||
| Rachel Pike | ||
| Lydia (Liddy) Calloway | ||
| 1964 | Lois Seeger | |
| Madame Raine De Sala | ||
| Kassia Paine | ||
| Dorothy Williams | ||
| 1963 | Ann Ryker | |
| Beth | ||
| Sister Gervaise | ||
| Claudia Sutton | ||
| Monica Welles | ||
| Kassia Paine | ||
| N/A | ||
| Jean Forbes | ||
| 1962 | Daphne | |
| Nicky Revere | ||
| Miss Wallace | ||
| Maggie Menken | ||
| N/A | ||
| Hallie Stoddard | ||
| 1961 | Liz Saxon | |
| Stella Calman | ||
| Angela Walsh | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1960 | Ellen Barnes | |
| Ernestine Coulter | ||
| Lila Crane | ||
| Daniza | ||
| Virginia Killain | ||
| 1959 | N/A | |
| Jean Medwick | ||
| Millicent Barnes | ||
| Lucy Ann Hardesty | ||
| Jeanette Mowbray | ||
| April Christopher | ||
| Sarah Lowell | ||
| Lena Anderson | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1957 | Sister Rita | |
| Betty Compton | ||
| 1956 | Rose Balestrero | |
| Jenny Breckenridge | ||
| Virginia Hanson | ||
| Jean Lennox | ||
| Laurie Jorgensen | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1955 | Virginia | |
| Ruth Dahlberg | ||
| N/A | ||
| Ruth Dahlberg | ||
| Elsa Spann | ||
| Jean Medwick | ||
| Dr. Sam | ||
| Laurie McCoy | ||
| Jill Hardy | ||
| Merle Roberts | ||
| 1954 | Sally Jordan | |
| Jan Michaels | ||
| Janet Reese | ||
| Linda | ||
| 1953 | Girl (uncredited) | |
| N/A | ||
| Jennie McKeever | ||
| Terry | ||
| Mrs. Eaton | ||
| N/A | ||
| Nora Douglas | ||
| Debra Stone | ||
| 1952 | Maggie | |
| Julie Tolin | ||
| Denny Burke | ||
| Kathy | ||
| 1951 | Showgirl (uncredited) | |
| Julie | ||
| Sarah Larkin | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1950 | Maureen O'Reilly | |
| Audrey O'Connor | ||
| Christine Carroll Kimberly | ||
| Jenny | ||
| Young Actress (uncredited) | ||
| Self | ||
| Laughing Sergeant's Date (uncredited) | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
